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I was wondering if any of you might be able to suggest good practice routines to use in developing the ability to play steady left hand arpeggios along with a mixed melody on the right hand.

I'm hoping there are several step-by-step methods to follow to work up to the complex arpeggio/melody combinations.

Now I am able to roll the bass chords or vary the sequence those notes are struck while playing a right-hand melody, but I have trouble maintaining "perfect" arpeggios when the right-hand melody is uneven or syncopation is not constant.

I was wondering if any of you might be able to suggest good practice routines to use in developing the ability to play steady left hand arpeggios along with a mixed melody on the right hand.

I'm hoping there are several step-by-step methods to follow to work up to the complex arpeggio/melody combinations.

Now I am able to roll the bass chords or vary the sequence those notes are struck while playing a right-hand melody, but I have trouble maintaining "perfect" arpeggios when the right-hand melody is uneven or syncopation is not constant.

I have the same issue, I'm playing with jazz pianist Dave Franks latest video doing something similar. It seems you have to go extremely slow and then slowly bring it up over time...days, weeks, months.

I was wondering if any of you might be able to suggest good practice routines to use in developing the ability to play steady left hand arpeggios along with a mixed melody on the right hand.

I'm hoping there are several step-by-step methods to follow to work up to the complex arpeggio/melody combinations.

Now I am able to roll the bass chords or vary the sequence those notes are struck while playing a right-hand melody, but I have trouble maintaining "perfect" arpeggios when the right-hand melody is uneven or syncopation is not constant.

Suggestions?

--Roy

When you say arpeggios, are we talking broken chords, the 5-1-3-1 that Mozart favors, or something akin to Beethoven's Moonlight 3rd Mvt (in the LH instead of the RH)?

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I have the same issue, I'm playing with jazz pianist Dave Franks latest video doing something similar. It seems you have to go extremely slow and then slowly bring it up over time...days, weeks, months.

It a hand independence issue for sure...

Mark...that video is a good example of what I'm trying to do. Thanks!

Another example coming to mind is the nearly constant arpeggios in Moonlight Sonata 1st movement. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT7_IZPHHb0 Beethoven's arpeggios are more varied than what I'm trying to do right now, and in the Sonata he changes hands with them, but that's the idea of it. the Sonata's arpeggios are also more the dominant part of the piece, whereas I envision mine primarily as a backup to the right-hand melody.

My question is aimed more at developing hand coordination rather than improving my musicality, at this point.